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I was never happy with the filtration rate or efficiency on my old ceramic Buchner funnel so I bagged a porous glass one:
To take that to the next level and to make cleaning easier, I grabbed some Celite 545 (refined diatomaceous earth). You slurry it up in liquid and pour it in and run the pump and it settles into a cake that acts as a filter. I'd played with it just to get a feel for it but while harvesting yesterday I was soaking my scissors in 190 proof and periodically washing the resin off my glove fingertips. That eventually became this:
This got too gross to clean up with so periodically running it through the funnel got this:
Really good clarity and gets pulled through the funnel in just a few seconds. Looking at the color I kind of assume that this is going to taste like ass so why not try out some charcoal?
Tossed teaspoon full of charcoal into the filtrate and spun it up on the string plate. After a minute I ran it through the filter again (used the same filter cake the entire time) and got this:
I'll rotovap this down later today. Curious to see how much ended up in there. It should be mostly resin so I'm not sure anything will come out in winterization. I'll run TLC on it for shits and giggles too.
In retrospect, I should have saved some of the pre-charcoal filtrate to do a taste comparison but I suspect there will be plenty of opportunities to unfuck second QWET washes.
-Eskander
To take that to the next level and to make cleaning easier, I grabbed some Celite 545 (refined diatomaceous earth). You slurry it up in liquid and pour it in and run the pump and it settles into a cake that acts as a filter. I'd played with it just to get a feel for it but while harvesting yesterday I was soaking my scissors in 190 proof and periodically washing the resin off my glove fingertips. That eventually became this:
This got too gross to clean up with so periodically running it through the funnel got this:
Really good clarity and gets pulled through the funnel in just a few seconds. Looking at the color I kind of assume that this is going to taste like ass so why not try out some charcoal?
Tossed teaspoon full of charcoal into the filtrate and spun it up on the string plate. After a minute I ran it through the filter again (used the same filter cake the entire time) and got this:
I'll rotovap this down later today. Curious to see how much ended up in there. It should be mostly resin so I'm not sure anything will come out in winterization. I'll run TLC on it for shits and giggles too.
In retrospect, I should have saved some of the pre-charcoal filtrate to do a taste comparison but I suspect there will be plenty of opportunities to unfuck second QWET washes.
-Eskander